Posted on 11/10/2018 4:17:21 AM PST by marktwain
Brazilian President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro is showing he is not your typical politician. Bolsonaro has held his political doctrines for decades. For decades, he has been unable to have them implemented because of the power of entrenched leftists in the Brazilian government. One of those deeply held positions is the belief that trusting the people with more power is the ethical thing to do.
Specifically, President-Elect Bolsonaro is willing to trust them to be capable of protecting themselves with their own firearms.
The government of Brazil has taken the opposite tactic for forty years, making firearms harder and harder for Brazilians to legally own and use for self-defense. From South China Morning Post:
In his first television interview since being elected on Sunday, former army captain Jair Bolsonaro said it was time to abandon what he called the “politically correct fallacy” that Brazil would be a safer place if everybody was unarmed.
“It won’t be any better. If there were three or four armed people here now, I’d be certain that some nutter wouldn’t be able to come in through that door and do something bad,” the right-wing populist told his interviewer from Record, a television channel owned by one of his powerful supporters.
In the 30-minute interview, Bolsonaro – whose sons and supporters are often seen sporting clothing or hats celebrating automatic weapons and the National Rifle Association – said he believed gun laws should be made more flexible.
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Allowing more people to carry weapons and defend
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Amazing switch by Brazil. The last leader was a socialist!
A very similar siutation to the U.S.A.
A media totally dominated by leftists.
The leftists totally corrupt.
Social media allowing Conservatives a way to communicate and organize.
Big difference: the last leader is in jail because of corruption in Brazil.
In 2005, Brazil voted, by 65%, not to outlaw the possession of firearms and ammunition by the citizens.
Brazil has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world.
Requiring people to vote is another ploy of socialists to keep power.
The more uninformed people vote, the more likely leftists are to be elected.
Same series:
The Weapon Shops of Isher.
My FFL was under Isher Enterprises, LLC.
More due to political considerations than really being afraid, I would guess.
A real army, unhampered by political restraint, would respond to being fired upon by leveling the favela with artillery and napalm.
I guess that's a possibility but it also could be out of genuine fear for their own lives and/or the lives of innocent civilians.IIRC the main problem in those heavily,densely populated favelas was drugs.And if these drug runners are as bad as Mexican ones (a reasonable assumption,IMO) then if the police or army were to "invade" the bloodshed among innocent civilians (and others) could be huge.
They aren’t all broken down shacks
Some are nice
They steal land and electricity and water and gas etc
Cinder and terra cotta block homes .....concrete floors and zinc roofs
They are communities far better than tenement homes or Cabrini green
I lived in Brasil years and in Rio
My ex is from a rich burb of Rio
São Conrado
I lived in Lagoa
My girls who live with me are legit Brasilioids
The army will enter the favelas whenever day or night but heavily strapped
BOPE assaults them frequently and I’m guessing the new boss man plans to take these criminal gangs down
The military police are a bit scared but will hit em in daytime
The civilian and policia turisma won’t take on the gangs
I had guns in Brasil
We got them from the federal police
Whom I paid as bodyguards when dealing with cash
Taurus 38
And 9mm revolver....yes that’s right
And a neat 22 with silencer
That baby was scary
When I went there all my Brazilian buddies had guns.
From the view I had (some distance away but clearly visable) they all looked really bad...almost as bad as what I saw in the slum settlements around Nairobi.Perhaps you know the favela I'm talking about.It could be seen on the hillside just to the left of the road that leads up the hillside to Tejuca National Park (? spelling).The guide mentioned the name but I can't recall it.
The army will enter the favelas whenever day or night but heavily strapped
With God as my Judge I swear that she specifically said that it was so dangerous that even the army dares not enter even in daylight.Perhaps this *particular* one was *especially* dangerous.She wasn't making a blanket statement about all favelas...just that one.
Rocinha favela is next to that relatively new park set up to appeal to ecofolks
There is a lot of irony in that
I’m very familiar with favelas and barrios and ranchos and slums in the world.
Here’s a list of many but not all I’m familiar with ranked 1-10 from 1 worst to 10 least
Managua 4
Port Au Prince 1 tie
West Kingston. 3
Freetown Sierra Leone 2
Lagos Nigeria 1-2
Cairo Egypt 6
Monrovia Liberia 1 tie
Bogota 7
Caracas 7
Durban 3
Lusaka Zambia 2-3
Tegucigalpa Honduras 4
Guatemala City 5
Santo Domingo DR 4
São Paulo Brasil. 7-9
Belo Horizonte Brasil 7-8
Delhi India 1-3
Goa India 3-4
Bangkok 8-10
Rangoon 4
1970s South Bronx 10
Brasil is not the worst ....the older favelas are pretty established
Bad is tin or plywood walls and dirt floor and tin roof and no utilities and open sewage
Few favelas in Brasil are like that unless in very early stages
Whereas in all black slums worldwide that is very common....and in Central America too
The Brasilian army is 2 million strong
200,000 active and 1.8m weekend warriors
They could slaughter the gangs but they fear the optics and lack the political will....it’s not because they are afraid
The new Jefé might be different
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